Broken Places Quotes

“When he pulled out his gun weighted with a meaning I couldn’t quite comprehend, placing it silently in my hand, I understood that my words didn’t matter to a man intent on speaking the language of the unforgiven.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse

“I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse

“Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse

“DENYING THAT A BAD THING has happened is easy. Then something happens: you remember.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse

“Our vulnerabilities are what connect us and ultimately, what bonds us.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse

“PAIN, NOT UNLIKE CLAY, stretches and molds us into someone we never knew existed. There’s beauty in that. Beauty most people can’t, don’t want to, or are afraid to see. Every scar we carry, physical or emotional, is unique. Nobody’s pain feels exactly the same because I can’t experience what you have.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse

“I hear the beating of the waves you carry in your chest
That simple and that profound
This love that binds us
Folded in pieces inside love’s soul.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse